In return for all these hardships, in return for Africans abandoning their birthright as citizens, pioneers and inhabitants of South Africa, the Government promises them "self-government" in the tiny 13 per cent. that their greed and miserliness "allocates" to us.

But the central government allocates resources both money and food grain to the states on the basis of the national poverty estimates taken from the national sample survey, which is based on the official poverty line.

Ms. Oey points out that the capitalization-weighted MSCI All Country World Index allocates about 42% of holdings to the U.S. and only 2% each to emerging economies like China and Brazil, whereas based on gross domestic product China is the second-largest global economy.

He allocates 6% to SPDR Barclays Capital Short Term International Treasury Bond and 3% to iShares JPMorgan USD Emerging Markets Bond , which buys dollar-denominated bonds of emerging-market governments or agencies.